This is the full interview, the one posted above takes everything out of context.
Gus Poyet insists Luis Suarez is â100% not a racistâ â and says England needs to adapt to foreign players coming into the country.
The Liverpool striker has been charged by the FA with abuse that âincluded a reference to the ethnic origin and/or colour and/or race of Patrice Evraâ, but the Brighton boss doesnât believe he should have a case to answer.
And in an explosive interview with the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast, he backed his fellow Uruguayan to the hilt.
Poyet said: âI know Luis very well and I will go to court if someone wants to prove heâs not racist. We live in Uruguay with plenty of people who have different colour skin. We all live together and play football together. Iâve been room-mates with people of different colour and we have no problems at all.
âI can assure you and everyone Luis is not a racist. We use different words and it is a different kind of situation. What hurts me the most is that you accuse someone. Luis Suarez has been accused of being a racist.
âYou cannot accuse people without a proper investigation, especially when itâs a foreigner who is coming from a different place where we treat people of colour in a different way. So it was very easy to accuse someone.
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England should adapt to the foreigners that come here and England needs to understand how the rest of the world lives. If we have that understanding, easy
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âYou need to go first vey deep into it to see if there is maybe a case. For me there is nothing at all and weâre making things look bigger than they are and that hurts.â
And Poyet claims the authorities in England have to understand the way the rest of the world views terms that could be construed as racist, although he concedes players coming into the UK also need to adapt to the different culture.
He added: âI played with a player, and nobody knew him as Fernando CĂĄceres. Everyone knows him worldwide as Negro Caceres â even in the newspapers and on television they all him that. Is that racist? In England it is but in the rest of the world, in South America or Spain, itâs not. Because I read that 100 times in newspapers and I listen to TV programmes calling Fernando, a good friend of mine, Negro Caceres.
âI understand people in this country and I changed my way of behaving, but Luis has been in this country just a few months.
âI played in Spain for seven years and they called me everything. It doesnât make it right, but what do you want? Tell me what you want.
âMe, Iâm not racist. Iâve lived with people of different colours in different countries and I adapted to every single situation. Suarez needs to adapt to England, and England needs to adapt to the players that come here.
âEngland should adapt to the foreigners that come here and England needs to understand how the rest of the world lives. If we have that understanding, easy.
âIf you try to go to a point that doesnât exist in the rest of the world, itâs going to be complicated. You think the rest of the world is wrong and you are right. Maybe it looks like you want the whole world to drive on the right hand side. Do you want that? So you need to adapt as well.
âLuis Suarez is 100% not a racist. We can accuse people and make Suarez look like a racist, but heâs not. He lived in a country where we live with people and work with people of other colour. And we trust them to the end.
âYou are not racist when you go against one, but [you are] if you go against the whole world of different colour and nationalities. That is being racist, not saying one word in one moment.
âIf thatâs what you want, fair enough. I take it and accept it. I had to behave in a different way because Iâve been in England for 13 years. So I know what you are like and I adapt to that.
âGive Suarez another six months and I think heâll be how you want him to be. ââ
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